This article brings together research on migration and identity in translocal and superdiverse contexts, and the recently expanding interest in narratives and interaction in social media, by examining the construction of identities in narratives shared in a private Facebook group message. The participants are former fellow refugees from Poland who reconnected on Facebook after two decades. The article analyzes three narratives produced in response to the researcher's question about ethnic and national affiliations. Using Bucholtz & Hall's (2004) tactics of intersubjectivity framework, this study examines the complex and conflicting ways in which individuals position themselves with respect to various contexts of belonging and difference (Meinhof & Galasiński 2005) that emerge in their narratives. I argue that the narratives show a link between essentialist or nonessentialist views of ethnicity/nationality, and the teller's assumed agency over her identity. The study also discusses new possibilities for discursive practices in social media contexts. (Narrative, migration, social media, identity, belonging)
This article examines variation in the use of two Taiwan Mandarin features, de‐retroflection of sibilant fricatives [ʂ] → [s], and labial glide deletion [wɔ] → [ɔ], in the speech of Taipei County high school students. The features become resources for the negotiation of identity positions within the highly structured school institution. I discuss the correlations between the use of Taiwan Mandarin and two social factors: membership in the small culture (Holliday ) of a particular bānjí or class, and individual aspirations. Holliday's concept of small cultures is proposed as a variant of the Community of Practice. I refer to Bucholtz and Hall's () tactics of intersubjectivity framework as a possible tool for explaining variation at the school. I argue that the two Taiwan Mandarin features are invoked to perform different social goals, which is possible because they are imbued with related but significantly different sociocultural meanings (Brubaker ; Baran ).
Exploring the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States, this timely book challenges mainstream, historically established assumptions about American citizenship and identity. Set within both a historical and current political context, this book covers hotly debated topics such as language and ethnicity, the relationship between non-native English and American identity, perceptions and stereotypes related to foreign accents, code-switching, hybrid language forms such as Spanglish, language and the family, and the future of language in America. Work from linguistics, education policy, history, sociology, and politics is brought together to provide an accessible overview of the key issues. Through specific examples and case studies, immigrant America is presented as a diverse, multilingual, and multidimensional space in which identities are often hybridized and always multifaceted.
The main aim of this research is the evaluation of the possibility of obtaining a nanostructured bainite after isothermal heat treatment of 9XC (according to GOST standard) bearing steel. It was found that the annealing at low temperature (250°C) allows to obtain the microstructure of nanobainite consisting of nanometric-scale bainitic ferrite laths and austenite with a dominant film-like morphology. In the case of higher isothermal treatment temperature (300°C), a microstructure was slightly coarser and the proportion of austenite with blocky morphology increased. The identification of a highly refined microstructure was performed using TEM and SAED methods. Besides, isothermal annealing temperature significantly affects hardness. The hardness difference between annealing at 250°C (630.0 ± 4.4 HV1) and 300°C (517.3 ± 1.1 HV1) was over 100 HV. Such a substantial decrease in hardness was caused by the fraction and morphology of the occurred phases. Due to the high silicon content in the tested steel (1.54%), the carbide precipitation was delayed, but locally the cementite precipitates were confirmed. Based on the research, it was found that the commercial 9XC steel is appropriate for nanostructurization in the low ranges of bainitic transformation. Designing of further heat treatment should be focused on the lowest possible temperature of isothermal annealing (even below 250°C).
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